Pioneer Technical Director of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Tunde Disu has urged the football house to dissipate more energy at ensuring that the Super Eagles get quality preparation for the all-important Qatar 2022 World Cup Play-off against Ghana’s Black Stars.
The Eagles will engage their Ghanaian counterparts in a two-leg play-off on 24th March and 29th respectively in Cape Coast and Abuja to pick one of Africa’s five tickets for Qatar 2022.
Disu, however, lauded the appointment of Emmanuel Amuneke to join Augustine Eguavoen as the national team technical crew, describing it as a good development especially with the quality and experience of the former Super Eagles stars.
“I think the focus of NFF now is how to ensure we have quality preparation for the play-off,” declared Disu.“ When I was with the Eagles under Clement Westerhof, we used to have a training camp in Holland out of sight of all where we prepare for major matches like this.
“Now that they have settled the issue of coaching crew, what should be at the forefront now is how to ensure that the players arrive early before the match so that they can train together for at least a week before the first leg.
“This will surely give them the needed confidence and get them used to themselves on the field of play,” Disu said.
Meanwhile, Disu blamed the poor state of the domestic league on inclusion of few local –based players in the Super Eagles.
“When I was with the Eagles, we used to pick a second-team mainly from the top four teams in the league and this showed the quality in the league then but unfortunate nowadays our league is nothing to write home about,” he quipped.“ The quality has drastically dropped and we don’t have the kind of quality we had in those days. That is why our former German coach Gernot Rohr turned the idea of picking players from the league.”